Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Are Little Rock
schools finally desegregated?
It was back in
September, 1957 when the desegregation of the students was officially and legally
taken place in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Since then, countless
efforts and actions have been made to bring equal educational opportunity to
everyone at school. However, there seem to be a long way to reach the goal as
financial and residential disparity still exist or even has widened between the
two races.
Higher dropouts and
lower grade and test scores are among the most significant problems among black
students whose families aren’t as affluent as white students’. Some of those
problems could be attributed to the school district where the racial mix of the
residents considerably differs from the national or even state average.
Enjoy reading the
article and thinking what could be done to bring in more balanced and equal
educational opportunities and outcomes.
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